Features
Fall Off the Radar
Ready for a foliage road trip? We’re taking you on an autumn ramble through western Maine’s backwoods and back roads.
Photographed by Benjamin Williamson
The Cruise Ships Are Coming
Love ’em or hate ’em, floating resorts are bringing boatloads of day-trippers to your favorite Maine towns.
By Will Grunewald, Joel Crabtree, and Joyce Kryszak
Burnt Out
Starks is a quiet, lovely little town that’s also Maine’s long-reputed epicenter of marijuana culture. So how come no one there seems real blissed out about legalized pot?
By Jesse Ellison
Departments
North by East
A renowned boatbuilder reimagines a 78-year-old sardine carrier, a pair of mad lighthouse keepers star in a dark and stormy tale, the Madam of Maples is in hot pursuit of fall foliage, and author Tess Gerritsen spins her first ghost story. Also, a diver finds a sunken WWII patrol boat in Maine Dispatches.
Food and Drink
We go all in for Maine drinks, sipping fruity, vinegary Herbal Revolution shrubs, visiting New England’s first cider bar, and pairing up Maine’s foremost wine and beer experts. Plus, our guide to Portland’s best happy hours.
Good Things from Maine
Obadiah Buell makes light and fluid sculptures from scavenged granite tailings, and a mother-daughter team caters to modern and traditional quilters alike at Nobleboro’s Alewives Fabrics.
Maine Homes
A 200-year-old Cape in Jonesboro gets a cheery makeover, and another round of our antiques road show.
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Where in Maine
Maine Moment
Dooryard
Editor’s note, reader feedback, responses to August’s Where in Maine, and more.
Room with a View
My Favorite Place
American Idol judge and songwriter Kara DioGuardi on York’s Hartley Mason Reserve.
On the cover: Height of Land, near Rangeley, by Benjamin Williamson
Additional photos: Jack Milton; Ryan David Brown; Heidi Kirn; Jarrod McCabe and
Dominic Casserly